Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University working with partnership with the Western Australia Police have come up with a tool that they're beta testing that they describe as a "random breath test". It's purpose is to scan computers for illicit images of the sort that won't ever appear on ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I saw an interesting bit on Slashdot recently, it seems that the Air Force, wants to rewrite the rules of how the Internet works.
The first thing I have to say is that I fully get the need for security and the fact that their IT and security people are tired ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In a way it's interesting to note that while a lot of people have made a lot of noise about government and corporate datamining operations, it doesn't seem like very many people have given a whole lot of thought to how much data Google (and other search engines) has access ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
There's good and bad here. Good is the fact that the state of Nevada passed a law back in 2005 that as of October 1st this year requires that any business in that state must encrypt all communications that contain personally identifiable information. I wish all states would ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The UN, the NSA, and others are talking about a change to Internet Protocols that would implement "IP Traceback" which would make it difficult, if not impossible, to be anonymous online.
The big noise they're making to justify it is how anonymity is often abused and used for criminal purposes. ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The EFF has announced that the ninth circuit appeals court has ruled in the Hepting v. AT&T case that the case is not to be delayed (this time) and is to be sent back to district court where it's supposed to proceed (though the case could well be old enough ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I read about this on slashdot recently and then in the last day or so I've gotten a dozen or so emails claiming to be from CNN Alerts. They all had subject lines that read "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" or "CNN.com Daily Top 10"
I knew right away that ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
With the oil companies doing their level best to put the economy belly up, lots of people are turning to more and more ways to conserve the cash. One option that many have overlooked until now involves getting some cash out of old hardware that they're not using anymore.
Lots ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Cookies are not just the sugary, crumbly treat they used to be. Now they're all about websites and advertisers having your browser store information that they can call back up and among other things, allow advertisers to track your online habits from the websites you visit to the purchases ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I recently had occasion to try out Roboform for the first time and after having it installed for several days I've come to the conclusion that I can easily live without it for the foreseeable future.
It proved to be handy in keeping login information for quick logins, and it's automatic ...
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